Andy Johnson

Hi, I’m Andy Johnson, an author, speaker and executive coach / organizational consultant that has the privilege of working with individuals, teams and organizations at many different levels. As part of Price Associates, a leadership development and performance firm in Boise, Idaho, I provide a broad range of services including: job benchmarking & matching, coaching, teambuilding, conflict prevention & mediation, training, workshops, and speaking. I’m a consultant that believes deeply in the use of assessments as a key part of helping to more objectively understand the organizations and individuals I serve. I’m partnered with TTI Success Insights, an industry-leading assessment provider in Scottsdale, Arizona and use assessments including: behavioral style (DISC), workplace motivators, acumen capacity, leadership competencies, emotional intelligence, and stress.

While I serve all kinds of leaders and their organizations and teams, I have a passion for helping people I call yin leaders:

yin: a leader who doesn’t fit the Western extroverted stereotype of leadership, but who leverages an alternative set of competencies and natural talent patterns to lead in a different way.

To help those yin leaders, I provide workshops and individual coaching that I call whole person coaching (a blend of coaching and counseling skills uniquely suited for introverted leaders), work through the impact of the Western cultural bias that favors extroversion and can tend to invalidate them. My latest book, Introvert Revolution: Leading Authentically in a World That Says You Can’t (2015) lays out a description of this cultural struggle, a description of the possible impacts on yin leaders, and practical suggestions for moving toward empowered authentic leadership for introverts.

For introverted and ambiverted yin leaders, I think the book will:

• give you a large dose of needed validation as an introvert and a leader

• help you understand the bias in the West as only one way of seeing things

• help you understand what introversion is and isn’t

• connect you to the real stories of other introverted leaders from today and throughout history

• give you practical ways to rethink and reframe your natural strengths

• point you to the value of balanced leadership, yin and yang leading together

For extroverted leaders, I think the book will:

• give you tremendous insight into the introverts around you

• give you practical strategies to work more effectively with introverts

• give you a larger, global, less-biased perspective on temperament

• help you think of ways to fire on all cylinders and increase horsepower

• show you the value that balanced leadership will add to your bottom line

Pushing Back Entropy: Moving Teams from Conflict to Health (2014) looks at two sides of one coin: conflict prevention and team health. Entropy is a principle that describes the way things naturally decline when continued efforts toward health and vitality are neglected. Doing nothing means we’ll go backwards. In the book, I lay out two models. A model of conflict development at three levels is explained, giving insight into the ways we can prevent conflict in our organizations at all three: systemic, intrapersonal, and interpersonal. A five-component model of team health is unpacked consisting of: character, cohesiveness, clarity, communication, and consequences. This model serves teams as a road map for the ongoing development and cultivation of team health. This is a handbook that can serve as a reference to keep everybody on a similar page as you navigate through challenges together. I deliver a two-day workshop based on these models called Shared Victory.

For teams, I think this book will:

• help you understand more deeply where conflict on your team is coming from

• help you predict and prevent the destruction that conflict brings

• help you intentionally develop team health with sustained focus

• help you achieve holistic superior results including: increased profits, improved productivity, less stress, improved health, greater meaning and purpose, and more happiness

The End of Conflict: Resisting False Utopia in Hope of True Restoration (2013) looks at the subject of conflict from a Christian perspective. This book arose out of my own personal struggles and my own journey seeking answers I wasn’t finding in the vast Christian literature on subjects like: forgiveness, abuse, repentance, restoration, and recovery. If you have experienced significant suffering at the hands of someone else, want to prevent or resolve conflict around you, or are looking for better and different answers that reflect God’s heart, both loving and just, on these subjects, this book is for you. I deliver workshops, keynotes and coaching related to these subjects for faith-based organizations.

For people of faith trying to understand conflict, I think this book will:

• help you release impossible and painful situations to a God who understands

• help you better understand how God feels about victims

• give you a biblically sound alternative to the cheap forgiveness commonly advocated

• help you avoid false guilt for not forgiving (or forgetting) people who aren’t sorry for the pain they’ve caused

• help you keep your sanity and your faith when you are involved in unresolvable conflict

On a personal note, I’m happily married to my wife. Together we have three grown daughters, one son-in-law and a grandson. I’ve had an interesting journey to get to this point. I’m a former architect and pastor. I’m a licensed counselor (LPCI), a coach, and a doctoral student in industrial and organizational psychology (my dissertation is focused on introverted leadership). My mission in life centers on helping people understand their unique value, worth and dignity.

You can connect with me in many ways including:

• blog: www.introvertrevolution.com

• twitter: @andyjohnsonPA

• facebook page: Introvert Revolution

• email: andy@price-associates.com